Harp Hotel, Wollongong ... 1918 ... John Campbell ... The Harp Hotel Wollongong was run by William Woods and his wife Margaret Jane Kenna from 1913 to 1919. They were assisted by some of their twelve children, their eldest son, Thomas James (known as Dick), was registered as the proprietor of the hotel. In the painting the girl with dark hair on the veranda is thought to be their daughter, Agnes, or one of her sisters. In 1919 the family relocated to the Terminus Hotel in Harris Street, Pyrmont, their son, Phillip, was licensee. In 1929 the family eventually settled in Wareemba Street, Five Dock and the painting of the Harp Hotel was proudly displayed in the breakfast room for thirty five years, until it was sold to the Mitchell Library in 1964. Reference: Information posted to the SLNSW eRecords Project blog by Leonie Low, 30 November 2010 ... Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales acmssearch.sl.nsw.gov.au/search/itemPopLarger.cgi?itemID=836591
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